Sutureless microvascular anastomosis assisted by an expandable shape-memory alloy stent

• Noriko Saegusa,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan, Department of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Shunji Sarukawa,

  Roles Investigation, Methodology, Validation

  Affiliation Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan

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• Kunihiro Ohta,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Supervision

  Affiliation Tamachi Industries Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan

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• Kensuke Takamatsu,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Resources, Software, Validation

  Affiliation Tamachi Industries Co., Ltd, Tokyo, Japan

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• Mitsuhiro Watanabe,

  Roles Investigation, Resources, Validation

  Affiliation Takumi Kogyo Co., Ltd, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Takashi Sugino,

  Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Visualization

  Affiliation Division of Pathology, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Masahiro Nakagawa,

  Roles Data curation, Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Yasuto Akiyama,

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Research Institute, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Masatoshi Kusuhara,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Research Institute, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan

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• Kazuo Kishi,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Plastic Surgery, School of Medicine, Keio University, Tokyo, Japan

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• Keita Inoue

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: kinoue-tky@umin.ac.jp

  Current address: Avenue Cell Clinic, Minami-Aoyama, Minato-Ku, Tokyo, Japan

  Affiliations Division of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, Shizuoka, Japan, Department of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, School of Medicine, Jichi Medical University, Tochigi, Japan, Avenue Cell Clinic, Tokyo, Japan

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